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Lester P. Grinspoon, associate professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, and Harvey A. Silverglate, former president of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, described the medical and legal history of cannabis and advocated legalization to a crowd of 40 at Marino's Restaurant in North Cambridge...
...Cannabis is probably the safest of drugs known to man," said Grinspoon, the author of Marijuana Reconsidered. There has never been a death caused by an overdose of cannabis. You can't take enough to kill you. One doesn't get addicted to cannabis...
Medical cannabis, which is legal in 34 states, alleviates symptoms of AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, and glaucoma, said Grinspoon. He added that the drug helped cancer patients deal with the side effects of chemotherapy...
...Grinspoon described cases in which the drug has considerably eased the nausea caused by chemotherapy for many patients, including Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould...
Siegel's book may draw spirited attacks from conservatives and skepticism from those who have fought and conquered addictions, but his ideas are respected by drug authorities. Says Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a Harvard psychiatrist and author of several books on drugs: "I have come to the view that humans have a need -- perhaps even a drive -- to alter their state of consciousness from time to time." Pioneer drug researcher Dr. Andrew Weil of the University of Arizona College of Medicine confirms that view: "There is not a shred of hope from history or from cross-cultural studies to suggest that...